American Express
Free, earning a flat 1 Membership Rewards point a dollar. Amex does not publish the interest rate or the foreign transaction fee for it anywhere we could reach.
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What we like, and what we don’t
Worth having
- No annual fee and no fee for additional cards
- Membership Rewards points, which transfer to Aeroplan at one to one
- 10,000 points in the welcome offer for $1,000 of spending in three months
- A flat rate with no categories to track
Watch out for
- A flat 1 point a dollar with no accelerated categories at all
- Amex publishes no purchase rate, no cash advance rate and no foreign transaction fee for this card in any document we could reach
- No travel insurance, no purchase protection and no mobile device cover
- The Membership Rewards branding suggests more earning power than a flat 1x delivers
- American Express acceptance is narrower than Visa or Mastercard
What this card earns
- Everything else
- 1x
- Bonus categories at once
- 1 you choose which
- What we value a point at
- 2¢
The earning fine print
Completely flat structure: 1 Membership Rewards point for every $1 in eligible Card purchases, with no bonus categories at all. Every category field is populated with 1 because the flat rate genuinely applies to all of them, not because category bonuses exist. Amex publishes no earn cap for this card. Earn_cap_annual is null because nothing is published rather than confirmed uncapped.
The welcome offer
- Welcome bonus
- 10,000 points after you spend $1,000, within 3 months
What the offer actually requires
Earn 10,000 Membership Rewards points, stated by Amex as $100 in value, for at least $1,000 in net purchases posted to the account in the first 3 months of Card membership. Amex notes to allow up to eight weeks for the welcome bonus to be awarded. Single tier only. No offer end date published.
Fees and interest rates
- Annual fee
- None
- Additional card
- Free
- Foreign transaction fee
- Not published by the issuer
- Purchase APR
- Not published by the issuer
Who can get this card
- Minimum personal income
- Not published by the issuer
Insurance and benefits
- Purchase protection
- Included
- Extended warranty
- Included
What the benefits really mean
Purchase Protection Plan covering accidental physical damage or theft for 90 days from date of purchase, up to $1,000 per occurrence. Buyer's Assurance Protection Plan extending the manufacturer's warranty by up to one additional year on eligible new items. Fraud Protection Guarantee. No travel medical, no trip cancellation or interruption, no flight or baggage delay, no rental car CDW, no mobile device coverage. The insurance package is materially thinner than the Membership Rewards branding suggests. Supplementary cards carry no annual fee. Redemption benchmark published by Amex: 1,000 points = $10 statement credit. NO INTEREST RATES OBTAINABLE FROM THE ISSUER. Amex Canada's Green Card product page is consent-gated and the cardmember agreement defers every rate to a separate 'information box and disclosure statement' that is not published online. Purchase_apr, cash_advance_apr and foreign_transaction_fee are all null. This card cannot currently be placed in any rate-based comparison without contacting Amex. The cardmember agreement PDF is a JOINT document covering the Cobalt, Gold Rewards and Green cards. Confirm any figure taken from it is actually attributed to Green and not to a sibling card. Membership Rewards branding implies a premium travel-points card, but this variant has NO transfer partners advantage over other MR cards at a $0 fee, a flat 1x earn, and essentially no travel insurance. The 1.0 cent point value recorded is the statement-credit rate Amex publishes (1,000 points = $10); other redemption routes may differ. Membership Rewards points earned on this no-fee card may belong to a different MR pool than those on fee-paying Amex cards, which affects transferability. Amex does not clarify this on the accessible pages. Amex-network acceptance in Canada is materially narrower than Visa/Mastercard. Do not confuse with the US American Express Green Card, which carries a substantial annual fee and a 3x travel/dining earn. The Canadian Green Card is a different, no-fee, flat-1x product.
Our verdict
The points are the only argument. Membership Rewards transfer to Aeroplan at one to one, so at our valuation a point a dollar is worth about 2% on everything, which is respectable for a free card. The 10,000 point welcome offer is a genuine $200 at that rate for $1,000 of spending.
Everything else is missing. Amex does not publish the interest rate, the cash advance rate or the foreign transaction fee for this card in any document we could reach, and there is no insurance of any kind. If you value Membership Rewards at the transfer rate and always pay in full, it is a reasonable free way to collect them. If you might carry a balance, do not take a card whose interest rate you cannot find out in advance.
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Where this came from. American Express Canada Green Card benefits page; Amex Canada no-annual-fee credit cards category page; Amex Canada rewards cards category page; Amex Canada cardmember agreements index (agreement covers Cobalt, Gold Rewards and Green jointly). Product/apply page is consent-gated and could not be read.. We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.